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What diagnostic tests needed to determine renal cell carcinoma?
Kidney Cancer | Last Active: Dec 11, 2022 | Replies (28)Comment receiving replies
Hey Ginger. Thanks for your response. Just getting a message from you helps the anxiety a little.
I like MD Anderson’s history of care with people I know. The Mayo Clinic gets the best ratings but I’m not sure about the traveling back and forth. I have only had one appointment with the local urologist.
I researching today on the chances of the biopsy spreading cancer cells, but I’m not finding anything.
I like the way you phrased the question to the doctor. I plan on using that.
What did you think about your biopsies?
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@paulinlouisiana Here is an older article that speaks about a techniques now commonly used for kidney biopsies
https://www.ucihealth.org/blog/2015/04/a-less-invasive-way-to-approach-kidney-tumors
My husband had a kidney transplant almost 5 years ago, and they used this guided biopsy technique with ultrasound, on the new kidney, for his biopsies. I was there in the procedure room room with him and was able to watch, pretty fascinating!
The term we are looking for is "seeding the tumor/lesion", and I would ask your dr on the possibility of that. From what I have found, most often if a lesion/tumor is of concern, they remove the kidney. Here is a paper from 2016 about tumor seeding, stating the chances are 1:10,000 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5037124/
My first kidney biopsy was Jan 2015, to determine my ultra-rare kidney disease, done on the right kidney. No complications, just no heavy lifting for 3 weeks. Second biopsy, done on left kidney, was Oct 2019. It caused some bleeding that required extra pressure on the biopsy site. I am grateful to the medical teams who performed them.
Ginger